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->''"*VIEWER ADVICE - FILM CONTAINS BAD LANGUAGE AND VERY BIG, SLIGHTLY CAMP PHONES*"''
-->-- A [[http://vimeo.com/72592236 warning]] from the director

A ten-minute short written and directed by Duncan Wellaway, ''Always Crashing in the Same Car'' (2007) stars Creator/RichardEGrant and Creator/PaulMcGann and is to date the only project to reunite them since cult classic ''Film/WithnailAndI'' (released twenty years earlier by the same production company, [=HandMade=] Films).

James Booth (Grant) is under a lot of pressure from a vague international crisis of some kind, and to make matters worse he's feuding with his uppity advisor Bill Mackinnon ([=McGann=]). After storming out of a midnight meeting and driving off into the city, he makes a mistake that shifts the balance of power very firmly in Bill's favour. Tense phone calls and desperate cover-ups ensue.

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!!''Always Crashing in The Same Car'' contains examples of:

* ActorAllusion: Grant and [=McGann=] not having appeared on screen together since ''Film/WithnailAndI'' (where they also played sweary, codependent partners in crime). Grant's casting was in part a deliberate ploy to help secure funding by exploiting this reunion.
* BeardOfEvil: Sported by Bill.
* TheCasanova: It's implied that Bill is, or at least claims to be.
* CastingGag: Grant and [=McGann=] not having appeared on screen together since ''Film/WithnailAndI'' (where they also played sweary, codependent partners in crime). Grant's casting was in part a deliberate ploy to help secure funding by exploiting this reunion.
* ClusterFBomb
-->"Darling, there aren't enough swearwords in the cunting dictionary for how holy fucked we are."
* {{Fanservice}}: Creator/PaulMcGann's character masturbating to making Creator/RichardEGrant's character submit to him. The ''Film/WithnailAndI'' connection makes it all the better.
* GovernmentProcedural: Of the vaguest kind. It's not even clear they're in government until the final minute.
* InnocentBystander: [[spoiler:The homeless woman accidentally run down by Jim.]]
* InSeriesNickname: Billy-boy and Jimbo.
* {{Mouthscreen}}: Bill gets several when talking on the phone.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Grant is very obviously playing a version of UsefulNotes/TonyBlair, who was struggling through the tail end of his premiership at the time. This is especially clear during the final scene when he trots out a pitch-perfect {{Stepford Smile|r}} for the press.
** [=McGann's=] character equally has echoes of both UsefulNotes/PeterMandelson and Creator/AlastairCampbell, and his controlling relationship with the PM only enhances this.
* NoPartyGiven
* PuppetKing: He may try to fight it, but Prime Minister Jim is firmly in Bill's pocket.
* SharpDressedMan: Jim but more especially Bill.
* SleazyPolitician: Our 'heroes,' who also explicitly qualify as {{corrupt politician}}s by the end.
* TitledAfterTheSong: The film takes its name from a song on the Music/DavidBowie album ''Music/{{Low|DavidBowieAlbum}}''.
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